Isabel, Martha Keyes
Isabel, Martha Keyes
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Isabel

Author: Martha Keyes

Narrator: Eleanor Caudill

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Paradigm Press

Published: 07/01/2022


Synopsis

A gentleman‘s impulsive wager to marry a stranger. A young woman’s determination not to marry the man she wants. When Isabel Cosgrove is informed by her father that he lost her hand in marriage while playing cards with Charles Galbraith - the gentleman she’s been admiring from a distance for years - she is filled with dismay. How can she agree to wed a man whose reason for marriage is part-revenge, part-indifference? Intent on avoiding a painful union where her regard cannot be returned, she concocts a plan. Charles Galbraith didn’t intend to become engaged as a result of a drunken wager at cards, but after the woman he loves spurns him, what does it matter whom he marries? But even Miss Cosgrove, the fiancée he won by wager, seems intent not to marry him - a fact that both relieves and piques him. She instead suggests a plan that has the potential to temporarily appease her father’s demand of marriage while also winning back the love of the woman Charles truly wants. But when Charles and Isabel are thrown into the midst of a brewing scandal and another man’s potential disinheritance, their plan begins to unravel thread by thread, challenging what Galbraith thinks he wants - and just how much more time with him Isabel’s heart can stand.

About Martha Keyes

Martha Keyes is a Whitney Award winning author who received a BA in French Studies and a Master of Public Health from Brigham Young University. When she isn’t writing, she is honing her photography skills, looking for travel deals, and spending time with her family. She lives with her husband and twin boys in Utah, where she was born and raised.

About Eleanor Caudill

Eleanor Caudill is an audiobook narrator that works out of her professional home studio in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up listening to her father’s self-created books on tape. Her passion is telling an author’s story with nuance, excitement, and honesty.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Connie on March 02, 2020

Edenbrooke meets Some Kind of Wonderful in this fun regency novel. Isabel is informed that her father gambled away her hand in marriage to a man she has liked for a long time. But when she discovers that he has had a longstanding understanding with another, she knows she can’t go through with it and......more

Goodreads review by Camille on June 01, 2020

Having enjoyed Martha Keyes’ Eleanor, I was really excited for this book, especially since the premise was so intriguing—a woman finds herself betrothed after her father loses her hand in a wager. But her intended isn’t just anyone, but the man she’s secretly been in love with for years. Unfortunate......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on April 07, 2025

Happy sigh… Another amazing story with plenty of suspenseful and, at times, infuriating moments. Certain female characters were so very vexing, and what happened to them was well deserved. Anyway, one thing is clear, Martha Keyes writes some seriously awesome stories.......more

Goodreads review by E on February 10, 2020

Unrealistic story line In a drunken wager, Charles Galbraith wins Isabel Cosgrove's hand in marriage from her inebriated father, despite being in love with Julia Darling. Julia's feelings and attitude to Charles have not remained constant and he is acting in anger. On discovering this, Isabel is appa......more

Goodreads review by Karen on June 02, 2020

I liked that this book wasn’t about the darling of the season but more of an ordinary girl just wanting to be a good person. Isabel went to great lengths to protect her heart. She was a sensible sort of person but she struggled with really being honest about her own feelings for Charles to the point......more